Creators Of New Smartphone App Hope To Get Indians To

A startup called Juggernaut is trying to get India’s smartphone users to read more with its new e-books app, Mashable reports.
Although India has the second-largest and one of the fastest-growing smartphone markets in the world, few of its 220 million smartphone users are avid book readers.
Juggernaut is launching its app with 100 book titles, priced as low as 10 rupees (15 cents) and up to 150 rupees ($2.25). Among these, a set of serialized erotic short stories by popular Canadian-Indian star Sunny Leone has generated the most buzz. The list of authors also includes Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy, historian William Dalrymple and American businessman Rajat Gupta.
Chiki Sarkar, Juggernaut co-founder and former Penguin Random House India editor-in-chief, spoke to Mashable about the new app.

"The first premise is, if we bring the world of books into the same space as your phone, will you be more likely to read. What if the price and length became much more accessible?" – Chiki Sarkar

The e-books have been adapted for reading on smartphones, with a focus on short reads and serialized stories. This means that most commissioned books are fewer than 25,000 words in length. The reading design is clean, classic and easy on the eye. There is an emphasis on genres that are the most popular and commercially-successful in India, such as romance, sex, crime, self-help and fantasy, non-fiction, and books for young adults and teens.

While Juggernaut's most obvious parallel is with Amazon, the founders say they're much closer in spirit to Netflix. Co-founder Durga Raghunath says they looked at Netflix's easy user experience, exciting mix of partners and original content, and the way they've matched their users to genres "in a genius way." Like Netflix, its app intuitively suggests books for readers based on their past preferences and will eventually have time-bound subscriptions.
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Latest IDERA Release Offers the Industry's Most Complete View of AWS Infrastructure

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
IDERA, a leading provider of database lifecycle management solutions, today announced the newest release of Uptime Cloud Monitor. The updated product integrates 16 new AWS services, bringing the total to 22 and making Uptime Cloud Monitor the most comprehensive view of AWS services and infrastructure in the market.

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With AWS representing nearly 30 percent of the cloud infrastructure services market share, there is a growing need for more in-depth monitoring of AWS services. IDERA Uptime Cloud Monitor integrates with Amazon CloudWatch for AWS and enhances its capabilities through faster troubleshooting, long-term data storage and a comprehensive user interface.
Prior to this release, Uptime Cloud Monitor covered Billing Information, Elasticache, DynamoDB, Elastic Book Store, Elastic Cloud Compute and Relational Database Service, with the latter two ranking among the top six most-used AWS services, according to recent usage data. Four others in the top six include Simple Storage Service, Simple Queue Service, Route 53 DNS and Simple Notification Service, and are among the 16 newly added services that ensure as users grow and diversify their AWS footprint, Uptime Cloud Monitor grows with them.
“Since many of our customers use AWS to power their infrastructures, integrating more AWS metrics into our existing monitoring capabilities adds value and visibility for users,” said Beth Chauvin, product manager at IDERA. “Uptime Cloud Monitor is the ideal solution for a hybrid environment, including on premises servers and others hosted in the cloud. If someone is transitioning part of their server environment to the cloud, they can have critical AWS metrics at their disposal. Plus, our on-demand pricing allows customers to only pay for what they use, providing extensive monitoring benefits without enterprise-level costs.”
With the installation of Uptime Cloud Monitor’s lightweight agents, data can be collected more frequently, enabling users to perform real-time troubleshooting as errors and issues arise. Uptime Cloud Monitor can display, alert and store AWS metrics for up to one year, allowing for true historical trending. The updated product also offers a unified custom dashboard that is easy to navigate, allowing users to view 22 AWS services at-a-glance without switching to other applications.
“Uptime Cloud Monitor is a great AWS monitoring tool. No other monitoring software is able to accomplish what the IDERA solution can do,” said David Moore, operations manager at OneCloud Systems.


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